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James Gallagher

James is a technical writer at Roboflow, with experience writing documentation on how to train and use state-of-the-art computer vision models.

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Inference In Computer Vision

3 Oct 2025 • 6 min read

What Is Inference In Computer Vision?

Learn what inference means in computer vision, how it powers real-time and batch applications, and why inference servers like Roboflow Inference make it easy to deploy models at scale.

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30+ Computer Vision Models

30 Sep 2025 • 3 min read

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30+ Computer Vision Models

We are excited to announce a tool to help you try, compare, and evaluate over 30 popular zero-shot vision models: Roboflow Playground.

Launch: Use GPT-5 in Roboflow

14 Aug 2025 • 6 min read

Launch: Use GPT-5 in Roboflow

Roboflow supports GPT-5, the latest OpenAI series of models (GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5 Nano), and all users can access these models with your own OpenAI API key, or using Roboflow credits with our Managed Roboflow OpenAI Key. These models are now the best OpenAI has to offer for vision tasks.

Reflections on GPT-5 Vision Capabilities

8 Aug 2025 • 5 min read

Reflections on GPT-5 Vision Capabilities

Roboflow's reflections on using GPT-5 for computer vision tasks.

GPT-5 for Vision: Results from 80+ Real-World Tests

7 Aug 2025 • 4 min read

GPT-5 for Vision: Results from 80+ Real-World Tests

On August 7th, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5, the newest model in their GPT series. GPT-5 has advanced reasoning capabilities and, like many recent models by OpenAI, multimodal support. This means that you can both prompt GPT-5 with one or more images and ask for an answer, but also prompt the

Advancing State of the Art Object Detection (Again) with RF-DETR

24 Jul 2025 • 5 min read

Advancing State of the Art Object Detection (Again) with RF-DETR

Learn how to use and train the three new state-of-the-art RF-DETR object detection model sizes.

How to Train a ResNet-34 Model on a Custom Dataset

4 Jul 2025 • 7 min read

How to Train a ResNet-34 Model on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a ResNet-34 model for image classification using a custom dataset.

How to Use Perception Encoder

26 Jun 2025 • 5 min read

How to Use Perception Encoder

Learn how to use and deploy Meta AI's Perception Encoder model with Roboflow Inference.

How to Deploy RF-DETR to an NVIDIA Jetson

26 Jun 2025 • 6 min read

How to Deploy RF-DETR to an NVIDIA Jetson

Learn how to deploy RF-DETR to a Roboflow Jetson.

How to Train a ResNet-18 Model with a Custom Dataset

25 Jun 2025 • 5 min read

How to Train a ResNet-18 Model with a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a ResNet-18 classification model with a custom dataset.

Launch: Roboflow Instant Models

24 Jun 2025 • 8 min read

Launch: Roboflow Instant Models

Roboflow Instant is a free, quick-to-train, few-shot model that requires as few as a half-dozen labelled images to produce an accurate object detection model.

How to Fine-Tune a SmolVLM2 Model on a Custom Dataset

23 Jun 2025 • 7 min read

How to Fine-Tune a SmolVLM2 Model on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to fine-tune SmolVLM2 for visual question answering using a custom dataset.

Launch: Manage Computer Vision Deployments with Device Manager

12 Jun 2025 • 4 min read

Launch: Manage Computer Vision Deployments with Device Manager

Learn how to use the Roboflow Device Manager to manage computer vision deployments.

OpenAI o3-pro: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

11 Jun 2025 • 4 min read

OpenAI o3-pro: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Explore how OpenAI o3-pro does on a range of use cases, from defect detection to object counting to VQA.

best artificial intelligence courses

1 Jun 2025 • 5 min read

Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Courses

Explore the top five artificial intelligence courses Roboflow recommends that will equip you with practical knowledge.

object detection in computer vision

30 May 2025 • 8 min read

What Is Object Detection? How It Works and Why It Matters

In this guide, we discuss what object detection is, how it works, how to label and augment data for object detection models, and more.

image classification

30 May 2025 • 9 min read

What Is Image Classification? A Guide for Beginners

In this guide, we talk about what image classification is and what problems you can solve with image classification.

Launch: Stop Training Jobs Early

29 May 2025 • 2 min read

Launch: Stop Training Jobs Early

Learn how to stop training jobs early on Roboflow Train.

Launch: Train Larger Models on Roboflow

22 May 2025 • 3 min read

Launch: Train Larger Models on Roboflow

Learn how to train Medium, Large, and Extra Large models with Roboflow Train.

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

17 Apr 2025 • 6 min read

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Read our analysis of how OpenAI's O3 and O4-Mini models perform on a range of vision tasks.

OpenAI GPT-4.1: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

15 Apr 2025 • 5 min read

OpenAI GPT-4.1: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Read our analysis of OpenAI's GPT-4.1 model on multimodal tasks like VQA, object detection, and more.

How to Monitor Red Zones with Computer Vision

10 Apr 2025 • 6 min read

How to Monitor Red Zones with Computer Vision

Learn how to monitor red zones for safety compliance using computer vision.

Launch: Train and Deploy RF-DETR Models with Roboflow

28 Mar 2025 • 7 min read

Launch: Train and Deploy RF-DETR Models with Roboflow

Learn how to train RF-DETR models with Roboflow Train and deploy RF-DETR models with Roboflow Workflows and Inference.

How to Train RF-DETR on a Custom Dataset

20 Mar 2025 • 7 min read

How to Train RF-DETR on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train an RF-DETR model on a custom dataset.

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